Eileen Atkins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Atkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Wicked Little Letters
When people in Littlehampton--including conservative local, Edith--begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, the rowdy, Irish migrant, Rose, is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.
Nothing Like a Dame
Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.
Paddington 2
Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
Magic in the Moonlight
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Beautiful Creatures
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Wild Target
A hit-man tries to retire but a beautiful thief may change his plans.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is an archer in Richard the Lionheart's army who are fighting the French. After Richard's death, Robin returns to Nottingham, becomes an outlaw and tries to win the heart of the widowed Lady Marian.
Last Chance Harvey
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates.
Ballet Shoes
In 1930s London, three orphan girls are adopted by their great uncle, who is an eccentric paleontologist, and his niece.
Evening
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago.
Cranford
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Ask the Dust
Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, orphaned Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend.
What A Girl Wants
An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes it could cause a scandal and cost him the election.
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain is the film adaptation of the novel by the same name from Charles Frazier. A star-studded film taking place in North Carolina during the Civil War. The film portrays civilian life during the war from the perspective of a woman who has been left behind as the men fight.
The Hours
The Hours is a melancholy tragedy based on the book by Virginia Woolf “Mrs. Dalloway” about three women doomed with depression. Director Stephaen Daldry timelessly presents the life and psychotic changes of the exceptional English author which Nichole Kidman won the Oscar for best actress.
Gosford Park
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Madame Bovary
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover.
The Avengers
Jack & Sarah
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head.
Cold Comfort Farm
A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
Wolf
Publisher Will Randall becomes a demon wolf and has to fight to keep his job.
The Dresser
Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.
Smiley's People
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened.
Equus
A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
I Don't Want to Be Born
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.